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249/250. We Built This City on Authenticity (ft. David A. Banks)

This Machine Kills

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The City of Efficient

Every 20 30 years there are new spans of these different eras right. And in each one, the capitalist class takes the way that they make money and builds the city and finances the city with it. The Victorian era was an effort to take steam and steel technologies of the time and use them to build like enormous, palatial monuments to capital and Western civilization. After World War II you get more of a city efficient sort of scenario which people quibble over what this era is called I'm just I for, for to make it nice and clean he says.

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